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Big Meat. Big Bucks. Bigger Harm. Animal Welfare and European Financial Links to Drivers of Deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm. Animal welfare and European financial links to drivers of deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado Image: Beef cattle, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Credits: World Animal Protection. Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm. 2 Contents About World Animal Protection Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm. World Animal Protection is an international animal welfare organization. Our mission is to create a Executive summary 04 better world for animals. From the frontlines of disaster zones to the boardrooms of large corporations, we are fighting to create better lives for all animals. Introduction 07 World Animal Protection is registered with the Charity Commission as a charity and with Companies House as a company limited by guarantee. World Animal 1. Facing desolation — the Amazon and Cerrado 09 Protection is governed by its Articles of Association. Charity registration number 1081849. Company registration number 4029540. Registered office 222 2. Travelling cruelty — cattle transport and animal welfare 17 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB. 3. Compounding cruelty — soy’s role in industrial farming 23 About this report This report investigates the links of European financial institutions with the biggest drivers of deforestation in 4. Driving deforestation — high-risk companies 27 the Amazon and Cerrado regions, with a special focus on animal welfare. 5. Focusing on financial links — the powerful keys 33 Authorship 6. Transforming the food system — facing the future 39 This report was researched and written by Dr Dirk-Jan Verdonk, Jennifer Black MA and Dr Paola Moretti Rueda (chapter 2), with contributions by Dr Tim 7. Recommendations 43 Boekhout van Solinge, Julia Bakker, Dr Monica List, José Rodolfo Ciocca MSc and Kate Blaszak MSc. Text editing by Michaela Miller. 8. Tools and further reading 45 Project coordination by Julia Bakker Financial data collection and analysis was done by Appendix I: RTRS 46 Profundo. More information on Profundo can be found at www.profundo.nl. Appendix II: Overview of links European financial institutions per company 47 This report is partly based on: J.W. Van Gelder, B. Kuepper (2020, August), Funding destruction of the Amazon and Cerrado-savannah - A Fair Finance Guide Netherlands case study on deforestation risks References 51 in soy and beef supply chains, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Profundo. Graphic Design by Fabián Ardon. Suggested citation: World Animal Protection (2020), Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm. Animal welfare and European financial links with deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado, World Animal Animal Protection, London, United Kingdom. Cover image: Daniel Beltrá Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm. 3 Executive summary The top 10 European financial institutions are at risk industrial livestock production. Large quantities of antibiotics are of massively bankrolling illegal and legal deforestation for used to maintain production, which leads to antimicrobial meat production in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado regions, resistance. Currently, antimicrobial resistance is killing thereby exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, public approximately 700,000 people annually, a figure that is health risks and, often overlooked, global farm animal cruelty expected to rise sharply. on a massive scale. The financial institutions researched for this report have financial Their support, identified for this report, totals at least US$98bn in links with 34 out of the 60 companies our researchers identified financial products including loans, investments and underwriting as having high risks of contributing to deforestation in the Amazon share and bond issuances. This is despite European citizens – and Cerrado. These companies include Brazilian-based JBS – the their clients – seeing animal welfare and protecting the largest meat processing company in the world – the American environment as important issues. More than 9 in 10 believe soy trading company Cargill and the French retailers Carrefour animal welfare should be better protected than it is now and Casino. Cargill was identified as the biggest recipient with according to Eurobarometer. US$15.7bn in loans and US$1.5bn in underwritings. Deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado is continuing – and Commitments and initiatives – including certification of soy – to even increasing –, bringing the region dangerously close to the stop deforestation, have failed so far. This is unsurprising, since the tipping point beyond which rainforest will flip into savannahs. This root cause of the problem has largely been ignored: the will have devastating consequences for global and regional excessive production and consumption of animal products. To climate change, indigenous and local communities, biodiversity, stop deforestation and its associated adverse impacts requires a the welfare of wild animals and agricultural production across transformation of the global food system. We need to return to the South America. Deforestation and the related intensification of acknowledgment that plants are the basic building blocks of food. livestock production is one of the biggest risk factors for zoonotic Plants should be used by people for food first. The role of animals epidemics and pandemics. in human food systems should be limited to: The main drivers of deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado are 1. grazing on lands not suitable for growing food the production of beef and soy, primarily used as animal feed for factory farming in Brazil, China and Europe. Shockingly, at least 2. converting streams of by-products not of immediate use for 17% of beef exports and 20% soy exports from the Amazon and human consumption and unavoidable food waste into food Cerrado to the EU may be contaminated with illegal This transformation entails a shift to: deforestation. Combined with legal deforestation, these numbers are even higher. • High animal welfare. Safeguarding animal welfare Cattle farming generates long distance transport of live animals should be central to livestock farming. This means on a massive scale, inflicting appalling animal cruelty. Long respecting and utilizing animals’ natural behaviours such journeys – up to 60 hours along treacherous roads – are as grazing, rooting and foraging. It also includes the common. Sea journeys are even worse. use of robust, slower growing breeds, that adapt well to local circumstances. High animal welfare also means The production of monocrops of (genetically modified) soy for fewer antibiotics being used and does not permit cage animal feed is not only driving deforestation, but also uses huge and crate use and painful mutilations. quantities of pesticides, adversely affecting ecosystems and communities dependent on them. Often ignored, the soy industry is • More plant-based. The current excessive consumption also propping up factory farming cruelty at enormous scale: of animal-derived foods in many countries needs urgent around 50 billion chickens, pigs and cows worldwide are rebalancing. Healthy, nutritious, predominantly plant- condemned to lives of misery annually. based diets should become the norm. Replacing animal protein with plant protein greatly reduces greenhouse Factory farms squash large numbers of animals into stressful, gas emissions and land use. It also contributes barren environments which have no access to outdoors or natural significantly to mitigating pandemic and other health light. Animals are often caged. They are genetically selected for risks. high yields. Due to its high quality protein content, soy is an important feed ingredient to realize these high yields within Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm. 4 • Sustainable, circular agriculture. Loops of agricultural Screen companies within beef and animal feed supply chains. inputs and outputs should be closed and shortened as The information from companies and from service providers needs much as possible at local and regional level. This to be triangulated with all relevant information obtained from includes phasing out the use of monocrops like soy as NGOs, experts, knowledge institutes and local communities. feed for chickens, pigs and cows. It also includes a Exclude clear offenders. When screening clarifies a company’s profound reduction in the use of pesticides and systematic involvement in adverse impacts (including on animal antibiotics. Finally, it would make long distance transport welfare), and prospects for adequate improvement are low, the of animals a thing of the past. company should be excluded. Financial institutions are key to bring about this transformative shift. Engage with companies. Engagement with companies which Many financial institutions still lack (adequate) policies. Where may not meet all principles and criteria included in the financial policies exist, there are gaps with implementation, monitoring and institution’s policy, must lead to a time-bound action plan to reporting. Nevertheless, some banks including ABN AMRO and achieve better alignment. Rabobank in the Netherlands and Standard Chartered in the UK have started to include animal welfare criteria that could drive Monitor and act. The company’s progress in implementing an significant progress. action plan must be monitored. If progress is insufficient, financial institutions must decide to divest or – in case of a loan – apply for To become part of the solution, financial institutions must: dissolution of the loan contract because the company defaults on Commit to a transformation of the food system, including zero one of the clauses. tolerance for
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